A Crisis in Confederate Command: Edmund Kirby Smith, Richard Taylor, and the Army of the Trans-Mississippi
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In A Crisis in Confederate Command, Jeffery S. Prushankin
scrutinizes the antagonistic relationship between Confederate
general Edmund Kirby Smith and his key subordinate, Richard Taylor.
Prushankin offers a perspective on the events in the
Trans-Mississippi through the eyes of these two high-strung men and
analyzes how their clash in personalities and in notions of duty
and glory shaped the course of the Civil War. Smith and Taylor,
Prushankin explains, disagreed over how to thwart Federal
incursions across Louisiana and Arkansas. Smith, a West Point
graduate and disciple of Joseph E. Johnston, owed a debt to
politicians in Arkansas and Missouri for helping him secure his
appointment and so opted for a defensive policy that favored those
states. Taylor, a Louisiana political general who had served his
apprenticeship under Stonewall Jackson, argued for an offensive
strike against the enemy. The friction between the two reached a
climax at the Red River campaign in 1864 when Taylor blatantly
disobeyed orders from Smith and attacked Federal troops. Prushankin
shows that what began as a dispute over strategy degenerated into a
battle of egos and a succession of caustic personal attacks that
eventually led to Smith's relieving Taylor from command. Despite
their discord, Prushankin argues, Smith and Taylor produced one of
the Confederacy's greatest military accomplishments in the Red
River campaign victory against a Yankee juggernaut. With his
insightful portraits of Smith and Taylor, use of previously
untapped primary sources, and new interpretations of correspondence
from key figures, Prushankin imparts fresh understanding of the
psychology of leadership in the Civil War as a whole.
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